Mom Arrested for Serving Minors

Reported by: Cait McVey
Last Update: 1/05 3:53 am

It was a startling 9-1-1 call New Year's Eve...A teen at 257 Robb Road in the Town of Amsterdam said she was so drunk, she could die.

"When we got to the residence, we noticed a young girl banging on the window, asking for help," says Montgomery County Sheriff Michael Amato.

Amato says Laura Doerr, one of the girls' mothers, was also home and oblivious to what was going on just down the hall. He says she had bought the four teens a handle of vodka earlier in the day. They drank nearly half of it. With one of the girls lying on the floor in her own vomit, another made the call for help.

"If they didn't call, chances are we wouldn't have known about this until the next day and it would've been an investigation into a death," says Amato.

Two of the teens were taken to the hospital with alcohol poisoning. Doerr was arrested and charged with unlawfully dealing with a child and endangering the welfare of a child under Montgomery County's Social Host Law. Amato says this is the second case involving the law since it was passed back in 2007. The first was Tracie and Darryl Bubniak, after serving teens in their home in March 2008.

"This is a serious crime," Amato says. "You might think you can do what you want in your house but these are children."

Amato hopes this latest case will serve as a warning to all parents.

"We're not going to look the other way," he says.

From: http://www.fox23news.com/news/local/story/Mom-Arrested-for-Serving-Minors/ZuD0AdBdT0yYF5bNT8-jNw.cspx